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Posting to other tech groups, flag to comp.misc

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From RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com>
Newsgroups comp.misc
Subject Posting to other tech groups, flag to comp.misc
Date Sun, 2 Mar 2014 19:56:59 +0000 (UTC)
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On 2014-03-02, Andy K. <andy.k466@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Feb 2014 18:31:05 +0000
> RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> wrote:
>
>> > Usenet needs more people to participate than it does carpetbaggers
>> > taking over one unused newsgroup because the website they've
>> > invested in so much has incremented its level of commerciality.  
>> 
>> Michael - You seem overly invested in protecting this Usenet group
>> for the people who were using it prior to February 2014.
>
> While he was way over the line in his tone and most of his points, he
> was right in the fact that some crossposting would be a good idea. If
> only to increase visibility of certain threads towards groups which
> might provide additional insight, making this group even more
> interesting to read.

Funny you should mention that; I was just thinking of a new idea.  There
was a pretty good discussion on crossposting here earlier and most
people - and me too - are against it.  I think crossposting often leads
to parallel discussions and is annoying.  But I was thinking - as you
are, apparently - that Michael was right that, for example, there are
good groups dedicated to things like VMS or Perl or Emacs and it would
be interesting to benefit from the knowledge of the folks in those
groups.

My proposal - curious to see if anyone objects - is to post the general
comp stuff here, stuff for which no dedicated newsgroup exists.  But
when there's a better group, to post it there and post a 'flag' here.

Let's say there's a good article about emacs (not a hypothetical
question, just saw one on Hacker News today).  I post it in comp.emacs,
and then in comp.misc simply post a flag stating the article's title and
in which group it was posted.

One neat thing about Usenet is that there are so many dedicated groups
out there.  That same thing can be a weakness in that it's useful to
have a place like this (or misc.news.scitech, cough cough) where people
interested in all or any of those specific topics can meet, and where
stuff that's more general and not necessarily germane to another
particular group can be alerted to the discussion.

What do you think?  There was a good thread that led to a collection of
good tech-related groups.  If everyone wants to give this a try, that's
probably the list of groups with which I'd start.

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  Re: Slashcott enters second week (?!) Koen Lefever <koen.lefever@gmail.com> - 2014-02-16 15:57 -0800
    Re: Slashcott enters second week (?!) "q.kontinuum" <achsis_of_elvis@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-02-17 09:21 +0100
    Re: Slashcott enters second week (?!) RS Wood <rswood@therandymon.com> - 2014-02-17 09:36 +0000
      Re: Slashcott enters second week  ? "tdk" <forum.tdk@squte.com> - 2014-02-17 05:01 +0501
        Re: Slashcott enters second week  ? RS Wood <rswood@therandymon.com> - 2014-02-17 13:35 +0000
          Re: Slashcott enters second week  ? "tdk" <forum.tdk@squte.com> - 2014-02-17 12:26 +1226
        Re: Slashcott enters second week  ? "q.kontinuum" <achsis_of_elvis@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-02-17 18:16 +0100
          Re: Slashcott enters second week  ? invis <invis@invis.net> - 2014-02-17 17:30 +0000
            Re: Slashcott enters second week  ? cykros@devio.us - 2014-02-17 22:50 +0000
      Re: Slashcott enters second week (?!) Lance Orner <lance@orner.invalid.net> - 2014-02-17 09:45 -0800
        Re: Slashcott enters second week (?!) RS Wood <rswood@therandymon.com> - 2014-02-17 19:54 +0000
  Re: Slashcott enters second week (?!) Oregonian Haruspex <bob_davis_retired@yahoo.com> - 2014-02-17 00:00 -0800
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    Re: Slashcott enters second week (?!) wjwlsn <ibillwilson@gmail.com> - 2014-02-17 16:22 +0000
      Re: Slashcott enters second week (?!) wjwlsn <ibillwilson@gmail.com> - 2014-02-17 16:28 +0000
        Re: Slashcott enters second week (?!) cykros@devio.us - 2014-02-17 23:02 +0000
        Re: Slashcott enters second week (?!) "q.kontinuum" <achsis_of_elvis@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-02-18 00:34 +0100
          Re: Slashcott enters second week (?!) Johannes Grassler <jgr-usenet@btw23.de> - 2014-02-18 23:45 +0000
      Re: Slashcott enters second week  ? "tdk" <forum.tdk@squte.com> - 2014-02-17 17:43 +0000
        Re: Slashcott enters second week  ? Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-02-18 01:55 +0200
          Re: Slashcott enters second week  ? "q.kontinuum" <achsis_of_elvis@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-02-18 07:37 +0100
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            Re: Slashcott enters second week  ? Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-02-19 08:58 +0200
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        Re: Slashcott enters second week  ? 2phar <none@example.com> - 2014-02-18 00:08 +0000
          Re: Slashcott enters second week  ? RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-02-18 07:12 +0000
            Re: Slashcott enters second week  ? Koen Lefever <koen.lefever@gmail.com> - 2014-02-18 05:41 -0800
              Re: Slashcott enters second week  ? RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-02-18 20:24 +0000
            Re: Slashcott enters second week  ? Whiskers <catwheezel@operamail.com> - 2014-02-21 17:16 +0000
            Re: Slashcott enters second week  ? Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2014-02-26 12:33 -0500
              Re: Slashcott enters second week  ? RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-02-26 18:31 +0000
                Re: Slashcott enters second week  ? RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-02-26 21:07 +0000
                Re: Slashcott enters second week  ? "Andy K." <andy.k466@gmail.com> - 2014-03-02 17:52 +0100
                Posting to other tech groups, flag to comp.misc RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-03-02 19:56 +0000
                Re: Posting to other tech groups, flag to comp.misc Dave Garland <dave.garland@wizinfo.com> - 2014-03-02 14:15 -0600
                Re: Posting to other tech groups, flag to comp.misc Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-03-02 23:47 +0000
                Re: Posting to other tech groups, flag to comp.misc Stephen Thomas Cole <usenet@stephenthomascole.com> - 2014-03-02 20:46 +0000
                Re: Slashcott enters second week  ? Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2014-03-02 23:24 -0500
          Re: Slashcott enters second week  ? "tdk" <forum.tdk@squte.com> - 2014-02-19 01:47 +0147
        Re: Slashcott enters second week  ? Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2014-02-26 12:31 -0500
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          Re: Slashcott enters second week  ? "wjwlsn" <ibillwilson@gmail.com> - 2014-02-26 14:30 -0600
            Re: Slashcott enters second week  ? Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2014-03-02 23:38 -0500
              Re: Slashcott enters second week  ? "wjwlsn" <ibillwilson@gmail.com> - 2014-03-03 00:54 -0600
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                Re: Slashcott enters second week  ? Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-03-03 09:46 +0200
                Re: Slashcott enters second week  ? Andy Burns <usenet.feb2014@adslpipe.co.uk> - 2014-03-03 08:02 +0000
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                Re: Slashcott enters second week  ? RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-03-03 19:55 +0000
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              Re: Slashcott enters second week  ? RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-03-03 13:19 +0000
                Re: Slashcott enters second week  ? Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2014-03-03 13:55 +0000
                Re: Slashcott enters second week  ? RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-03-03 14:21 +0000
      Re: Slashcott enters second week (?!) "Elizabeth T. Knuth" <eknuth@csbsju.edu> - 2014-02-22 13:57 -0600
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